tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39177112011-04-21T23:20:00.658-04:00Renergaid SoundwaveThe travels and exploits of a humanitarian aid worker. In quasi-non-real-time.renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1151042253476861642006-06-23T01:57:00.000-04:002006-06-23T01:57:33.533-04:00OK First, the number of homeless is reported at around 2 million, which doesn't quite match the number that would be generated by factoring in the average family size to the number of destroyed/damaged houses, but its fine enough.In Singapore now, on a visa run, as Indonesia's VOA is only for 30 days. Singapore is kind of surreal...First off, its the only island-city-state I know of in the world.renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1150546532626116442006-06-17T08:15:00.000-04:002006-06-17T08:15:32.683-04:00Things have settled down a bit, from the report on HODR, still clearing debris, accepting all sorts of food and tea from the villagers...Apparently Merapi has been acting up lately, strange how it took a series of emails from halfway across the world to alert us to the fact that a volcano 40km away was growing uppity...had two tremblers this morning, at 2.30 and ~8.00, ran outside as the mattressrenergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1150027114363201652006-06-11T07:58:00.000-04:002006-06-11T07:58:37.490-04:00Yogya photos!yay!renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1149938474611379252006-06-10T07:21:00.001-04:002006-06-10T07:31:44.230-04:00Hi guys, another belated update. I love how all my entries start with, "Fuck, I should have updated a week ago..." Seems to me no reason to break the habit now, so here goes...Scuba Marc and I have been in Indonesia for the past week, but this post will in no way make up for everything that has happened in that time. We have been setting things up for a possible deployment of Hands On Disaster renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1148965263786569762006-05-30T00:20:00.000-04:002006-05-30T01:04:14.903-04:00So some stuff has transpired in the month since I've updated this thing...Spent a good amount of time sleeping and nichtsing about back at home in Vermont, which was good.Went to Yale's Commencement. Anderson Cooper spoke. And it was good. Really fucking good.Screenprinted an assload of shirts for Jamie's track team. Pretty good.Then this happened. Not so good.Actually, pretty damn bad.And so I'mrenergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1146375784209315602006-04-30T01:29:00.000-04:002006-04-30T01:50:38.546-04:00as i am no longer on the gc, and havent been for the past few days, this blog will hereby switch focus from being solely an on-the-ground account of my time there, to things of related interests, be it by a few degrees or more...to start things out, here are some really interesting links.i dont care who you are, and what you say about katrina and rita being part of some 30-year recurring cycle ofrenergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1146033051767728172006-04-26T02:05:00.000-04:002006-04-26T02:38:25.743-04:00I feel I've been fairly delinquent in updating things to the blog.Lots of things going on... lets see here.Mayoral election has come and gone, and its come down to incumbent Nagin, and son-of-former-mayor Mitch Landrieu in a runoff to be held on May 20.Lots of corporate types filing through the site here, checking out where all their money's been going/will be going.Been fairly sick and/or tired,renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1145576734054011882006-04-20T19:41:00.000-04:002006-04-20T20:27:51.346-04:00body making a recovery from being way ill for the past week.drinking strangely arousing herbal concoctions from common ground.more stuff hopefully to come.watch this in the meantime.(if that doesnt work, click on "US" in the channels section, then "Hurricane Katrina," then "Betting on Biloxi." its about what we've been saying ever since september...)renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1145049731207038672006-04-14T17:19:00.000-04:002006-04-17T12:07:01.436-04:00hrm...funny how a day wasted doing nothing but desk-surfing turned this up...http://buddhistanarchism.blogspot.com/2006/04/lamas-beat-everything.htmlspot-for-frickin-spot...renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1144942931148534442006-04-13T11:22:00.000-04:002006-04-15T14:13:54.056-04:00took a couple days off from the insanity around here, needed to not be around people, so ran up here, just came back yesterday.oh fresh verdant tree-scented air, birds of spring chirping in your midst, how ive missed thee these long sordid months...yes came back, and LOOK! FINALLY! FEMA releases, well, not quite the flood maps... but the guidelines that go with the flood maps!still doesnt solve renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1144623127518787392006-04-09T17:53:00.000-04:002006-04-12T11:14:18.306-04:00past week.. well actually mon-wed was spent taking out a not inconsiderable set of bleachers out of a boys and girls club in gretna, as well as completely re-outfitting 3 rooms and 2 bathrooms in the back. eventually, the club will have a second story balcony/mezzanine kind of thing up top, with classrooms/meeting rooms on bottom.lots of freebies too - tickets to a boxing match at the arena, renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1144504241407661352006-04-08T09:39:00.000-04:002006-04-10T00:03:35.963-04:00working on panoramizing some photos from the past week of crazy intensity.in the meantime, here's an article.also, there's this.and here's a blog from some of the volunteers who were here last week, a group of teachers from minnesota.here's a picture, for kicks.and hot damn, this looks exciting.renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1144040412529692232006-04-03T00:56:00.000-04:002006-04-03T01:27:49.246-04:00indians and sunflowers, oh my!so apparently today was super bowl sunday, and on our way out to go plant sunflowers, for bioremediation and community beautification purposes, we ran into a parade of mardi gras indians coming down oretha castle haley. twas awesome indeed.this kid was busting it outadelljennifer e jennifermeganeven the cool kids are doing itallison "big al" speichernp: eliot lipp - renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1143827785428644222006-03-31T12:08:00.000-05:002006-03-31T13:06:50.300-05:00Past week was kind of slow, but got some things done.Figured out a plan for a library that singleton charter school (one of the 18 or so out of NOLA's ~120 pre-Katrina schools open) across the street would like to have put into one of their rooms.Talked to some people, you know, set some stuff up, to do some stuff together. you know. or something. yeah...We'll be working with these people next renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1143341918469040572006-03-25T21:13:00.000-05:002006-03-25T23:15:13.230-05:00charity hospital rallycut the fucking fencealso, the city's "plan":January 20, 2006: Start formation of neighborhood planning teams; refine scope of work and schedule. Start data collection and analysis for neighborhood plans and city-wide coordination. February 20, 2006: Neighborhood planning teams start work. Neighborhood plans coordinated city-wide. Plan to identify committedrenergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1143306176819642222006-03-25T11:22:00.000-05:002006-03-25T12:53:15.450-05:00here's some shots of the n-trips back at base:manda, sally, neal, steph, kendaamy, kenda, sally, non-trip allison, non-trip sara's leg, choinp: the faint-violent (junior sanchez remix)renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1143300015192483572006-03-25T09:22:00.000-05:002006-03-25T21:10:47.176-05:00so havent updated in quite a while, disaster relief time, so heres an attempt at doing so, blogger so willing.we've now just gotten past our third week in operation, and it has become quite aware to all of us involved, that the model of sporadic, one-off, shotgun-style gutting and de-molding homes, which worked quite well in biloxi, no longer applies.nola is just too damn big. and too damn renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1142566592570507192006-03-16T22:26:00.000-05:002006-03-16T22:38:29.156-05:00aven't updated in a while. ere's some mo', matey.jess at the talent showwelcome to suburbia32 weapons and narcotics arrests by our corner...renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1141872727883858732006-03-08T23:31:00.000-05:002006-03-11T06:43:45.173-05:00today's project: massive full gut of a mold-infested church. with 40 people.awesome.np: m83 - lower your eyelids to die with the sunrenergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1141794879062975292006-03-08T00:01:00.000-05:002006-03-08T00:17:26.693-05:00maybe i should get a site devoted just to pics...james "lockjaw" kaneup north in Lake View, right next to Lake Pontchartrainyou can see the levee behind the housesapparently business is brisk...quick note: blogger seems to resize the composite photos to "normal" dimensions upon display, thereby reducing resolution by a lot. email me if you want the full-res pics...np: coldcut - sound mirrorsrenergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1141705455706482682006-03-06T22:23:00.000-05:002006-03-06T23:43:08.326-05:00more photos!our first gut jobs! two teams went out today, and totally kicked butt, a great day in general... two guts, two parks, one flaming roof next door, a malfunctioning oven, a police chase, and one rusty nail wound later, some pictures:marc is boredari at workkristin!In other doings, it is with some measure of sadness that I relate the departure of (Scuba) Marc Young (along with Darius (renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1141626537307816912006-03-06T00:27:00.000-05:002006-03-06T01:28:57.340-05:00ok now some pics...closet officechillingsleepingoutsidemore to come by light of day.np: dabrye - truffle no shufflerenergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1141538164035271502006-03-05T00:46:00.000-05:002006-03-05T17:12:34.640-05:00And it begins... So we just got the first group of volunteers into the new site, 30-40 or so from St. Bonaventure, 10 from Mission From Minnesota. After the past 4 days of sheer insanity, what with the 8 or so longtimers here, plus the 9 NCCC kids we've got, and whoever happens to be in from Biloxi, all working feverishly to get the place up, and guess what, its all coming together... bunk beds renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917711.post-1141173128877050652006-02-28T19:30:00.000-05:002006-02-28T19:48:25.453-05:00In New Orleans now, the day of Fat Tuesday and the culmination of Mardi Gras, which is crazy since the new center here is three blocks from St. Charles, where all the floats go down on their way to the French Quarter. So you can imagine the traffic snafus all around and the legions of drunk people dragging their kids around, cascading with beads and assorted paraphernalia.In any event, the build renergaidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499932842422604798noreply@blogger.com0